pleased - Story 106712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his worn armchair, the eviction notice a crumpled mess in his fist. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest. “Finally,” he muttered to himself, the words barely audible above the rhythmic creaks of the old house settling. He felt a lightness, an unburdening, as if a weight he hadn't realized he was carrying had lifted. He stretched, feeling his muscles unwind. He could practically taste the freedom. The sun was shining. He decided to go for a walk.

Emotion: pleased

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.62 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion pleased. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 pleased stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the pleased emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the pleased vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.728
`la`	0.496
`happy`	0.462
`🤩`	0.433
`🥳`	0.430

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.486
`😞`	-0.481
`ness`	-0.454
`😣`	-0.431
`worse`	-0.401